Re: draft followup Re: [needs proofread and translation] March newsletter

Ana Galan <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:48:20 +0100
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Dear all,

sorry for all the garbage characters. I have no idea how this happened 
as my original file is clean of those. Our system hackers are checking 
our system so it won't happen again.

I was today working on adding all the proofreading suggestions and 
fixing it: https://webpreview.fsfe.org/cgi/fsfe.pl?pad=1594

We will publish it today

Best,

Ana

On 09/03/2026 06:06, Richard L. Schmeidler wrote:
> You sent the March newsletter for proofreading and translation on 
> Friday, March 6.  That day, and on Saturday, March 7, I proofread the 
> webpreview that you identified in your email.  Just after noon my time 
> (early evening your time) I sent my suggestions, with my version of 
> the xhtml that I had downloaded from the webpreview.  My hope was that 
> it would be useful to any of you who were working over the weekend.
>
> Many of the suggestions I made related to garbage characters.  I was 
> not the first one to see them.  Just 68 minutes after you sent your 
> message, Francisco de Asis Humberto Fernandez Miser wrote in response: 
>  "Reading the newsletter in a Mo illa Firefox I have found sometimes 
> this character †(in ™"you’re", for instance)."
>
> A webpreview seems to be inherently a moving target.  This is not a 
> complaint, just an observation of the process as I see it.  It is now 
> Monday, March 9 (just after midnight for me, early morning in 
> Europe).  When I look at the webpreview now,
>
> The garbage characters have now gotten worse.  I have done a diff 
> between the xhtml of the version of the webpreview that I downloaded 
> on Friday and the current version.  Here are the first few differences:
>
> 6c6
> < 	<title>It’s about our community</title>
> ---
> > 	<title>It’s about our community</title>
> 11c11
> < <h1>It’s about our community</h1>
> ---
> > <h1>It’s about our community</h1>
> 28c28
> < <h3>I Love Free Software Day 2026†</h3>
> ---
> > <h3>I Love Free Software Day 2026†</h3>
> 37c37
> < <p>For the 2026 celebration, and under the motto “Maintainers Matter†,
> ---
> > <p>For the 2026 celebration, and under the motto “Maintainers Matter†,
> All the differences seem to be this kind of expansion.
>
> =====
>
> But it gets worse.  The same kind of garbage characters seem to have 
> infected the email in which I made my suggestions on Saturday.  I am 
> noting these infections in the copy of that email below.  (It is 
> conceivable that a few of these may be my fault, but I am confident 
> that most of them are not, that they are mistranscriptions of special 
> characters that are not what I typed.)
>
> I hope that you will send out a new draft (or make improvements to the 
> webpreview) so that I will be able to do additional proofreading 
> before you publish the newsletter on Tuesday.
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2026 at 12:40 PM Richard L. Schmeidler 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     I have proofread the webpreview, and attach a version with my
>     suggestions.  My file is generated from the xhtml generated by the
>     webpreview, but it is in .odt format to get the benefit of
>     highlighting my suggestions with the LibreOffice Track Changes
>     feature.
>
>     I am making the effort to do this quickly enough that you and the
>     translators will be able to work on it over the weekend as well as
>     on Monday, before it is published on Tuesday.
>
>
>     1.  (BOTH Title and Heading)  "It’s about our community" 
>     Replace "It’s" with "It's" BOTH times.
>
>     2. Figure alt text:  "Graphic for the FSFE newsletter with the
>     FSFE logo, a I Love Free Software collage that includes thank you
>     cards, comic panels, a group photo and on the bottom, a picture
>     with books of Ada and Zangemann and the Router Freedom icon"
>     Replace the first occurrence of "a" (before "I") with "an." 
>     English grammar.
>
>     3.  Heading:  "I Love Free Software Day 2026â"  Remove "â".
>
>     4.  "Every year on 14 February and in the days around it, we come
>     together, online and in person, to express their appreciation to
>     everyone part of the Free Software communities."
>
>     (a)  Replace "their" with "our."  Since the pronoun used as the
>     subject of the verb "come" is "we," the corresponding possessive
>     pronoun should be used for "appreciation."
>
>     (b)  Insert "who is" after "everyone."  English usage.
>
>
> I think that the versions of the special characters around the phrase 
> Maintainers Matter may be corrupted, but I can't tell.
>
>     5.  "For the 2026 celebration, and under the motto “Maintainers
>     Matter†, our communities organised 22 events across 12 different
>     European countries, reaching more than 300 people offline."
>
>
> I see several corruptions in the sentence that follows. The first 
> quoted character that now is shown with a TM in it is corrupted, and 
> the quoted phrase should have zero or two corrupted characters shown.  
> But this latter may be an error on my part.
>
>     Replace "’" with a single quotation mark BOTH times, before and
>     after "€œMaintainers Matter."  A single quotation mark can look
>     like an apostrophe, or can be curved -- subtly different for the
>     beginning and ending quotation marks.
>
>
> The corrupted characters in the text that I quoted and my suggestion 
> are clearly inconsistent, so that there has been further corruption.
>
>     6.  "For the first time, the celebration also reached the front
>     page of Hacker News, thanks to a “thank you†blog post by
>     Matthias Kirschner"
>
>     (a)  This is just a suggertion.  Do you want to put in a link to
>     the front page of Hacker News?  I an not attempting to do this in
>     my version.
>
>     (b)  Replace "’" with a single quotation mark BOTH times, before
>     and after "thank you."  See my #5, above, for a discussion of
>     single quotation marks.
>
>     7.  'For our I Love Free Software Day podcast episode w<a
>     href="/news/podcast/2026/episode-47.html">e have spoken with
>     Lorenz Kästle from the monitoring plugins</a>.'
>
>     (a)  The link covers text starting in the middle of the word "we"
>     and continuing to the end of the sentence.  I suggest having the
>     link just on the words "podcast episode."  I hope that I have done
>     this correctly in my version.  Other corrections are possible.
>
>     (b)  I have no idea what "monitoring plugins" means, nor how Mr.
>     Kastle can be "from . . .plugins." I think this should be
>     rewritten, but I have not attempted to rewrite this in my version,
>     which would require me to listen to the podcast.  That is not an
>     appropriate task for a proofreader working against a deadline.
>
>     (c)  Replace "ä" with "a".  I hope that this is the correct
>     spelling of the name.  If not, do it correctly.
>
>     8.  [this is the link text] "interoperability compliance under the
>     EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and mobile phones"  Replace
>     "EU’s" with "EU's".
>
>     9.  "During FOSDEM 2026, we also held a Q&amp;A session on the
>     Cyber Resilience Act together with a representative of the German
>     market
>     surveillance authority and the European Commission as there are
>     still uncertainties and recurring questions."
>
>     (a)  I suggest adding commas before and after "together with a
>     representative of the German market surveillance authority and the
>     European Commission." (These commas are not compulsory, but I
>     think that they make the sentence clearer.)
>
>     (b)  This is a question, not a suggestion, since I have not tried
>     to research the FOSDEM session.  Was the Q&A session held with one
>     person who represented both organizations, or with two
>     representatives, one from each organization?  The present text
>     says that there was just one representative.  If there were two
>     representatives, you should replace "a representative" with
>     "representatives."
>
>     10.  "There, we talked about the role of the steward as people are
>     still unsure whether and under what circumstances they should or
>     want to become a steward."  I suggest replacing "or want to" with
>     "- or might want to -" (I have used hyphens as short dashes).  I
>     think that this makes the sentence clearer, both by indicating the
>     uncertainty as to desiring to take on the work, and as more
>     clearly distinguishing mandatory from voluntary work.
>
>
> Obviously, the replacement should have an apostrophe, rather than the 
> corrupted character.
>
>     11.  "Google’s plan would mean that all personal data of Free
>     Software app developers on Android would end up with Google" 
>     Replace "Google’s" with "Google'€™s."
>
>
> Obviously, the replacement should have a hyphen, rather than the 
> corrupted character.
>
>     12.  "arbitrary bans against privacy‑protecting and critical
>     apps"  Replace "privacy‑protecting" with "privacy-€‘protecting."
>
>     13.  "What the letter asks Google is to rescind the mandatory
>     developer registration for all third‑party distribution, to
>     engage in transparent dialogue with civil society, Free Software
>     communities, and regulators on improving security without
>     sacrificing openness, and committing to platform neutrality so
>     that Google’s role as Android steward does not conflict with its
>     commercial interests."
>
>
> Obviously, the replacement should have a hyphen, rather than the 
> corrupted character.
>
>     (a)  Replace "third‑party" with "third-€‘party."
>
>     (b)  Replace "committing" with "to commit."  This rather long
>     sentence combines clauses that have different forms.
>
>
> Obviously, the replacement should have an apostrophe, rather than the 
> corrupted character.
>
>     (c)  Replace "Google’s" with "Google'€'s."
>
>     14.  Heading:  "From Ada’s workshop"  Replace "Ada’s" with
>     "Ada'€'s
>
>     15.  "Ada og Zangemann – En fortelling om programvare,
>     rullebrett og bringebæris"  I suspect that the same sort of
>     corruption of punctuation and spelling that I have been
>     encountering has affected this Norwegian title, as it has affected
>     so much of this webpreview.  In particular, I have doubts about
>     "â" and "bringebæris."  However, I have no idea what the correct
>     punctuation and spelling should be.  Someone who has access to the
>     Norwegian title should correct this.
>
>     16.  "an Ada &amp; Zangemann reading session in Frech took place
>     alongside a small Ada-themed game."  Replace "Frech" with "French."
>
>     17.  Last but not least, if you are in Germany and coming to
>     Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026
>     <https://fsfe.org/events/index.en.html#event-20260328-01> , come
>     by to say hi!"  I suggest replacing 'hi!' with ' "Hi!" '
>
>     (a)  Since you are quoting the greeting, it is customary in
>     English to enclose it in quotation marks. (There is a discussion
>     of quotation marks in my #5, above.)
>
>     (b)  It is customary in English to capitalize the first word of a
>     quoted full sentence, even if the sentence is just a one-word
>     greeting.  (Here "hi!" is clearly a quoted full sentence, not 
>     just a single quoted word, since the terminating punctuation of
>     the sentence is quoted.}
>
>
> Obviously, the replacement should have an apostrophe, rather than the 
> corrupted character.
>
>     18.  "We may be behind the wheel, but you’re the ones keeping us
>     moving forward."  Replace "you’re" with "you'€™re."
>
>
>     On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 8:51 AM Ana Galan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>         Dear translators,
>
>         our newsletter is ready for your proofreading and translation:
>
>         https://webpreview.fsfe.org/cgi/fsfe.pl?pad=1594
>
>         We will publish it next Tuesday.
>
>         Best and have a great weekend!
>
>         Ana
>
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    <p>Dear all,</p>
    <p>sorry for all the garbage characters. I have no idea how this
      happened as my original file is clean of those. Our system hackers
      are checking our system so it won't happen again.</p>
    <p>I was today working on adding all the proofreading suggestions
      and fixing it: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://webpreview.fsfe.org/cgi/fsfe.pl?pad=1594">https://webpreview.fsfe.org/cgi/fsfe.pl?pad=1594</a></p>
    <p>We will publish it today</p>
    <p>Best,</p>
    <p>Ana</p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/03/2026 06:06, Richard L.
      Schmeidler wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAKbK2ayqeNPLnQJdTO8P7UJb37A5LYbrbn9uBrtHO6c2NMoSzg@mail.gmail.com">
      <div dir="ltr">
        <div dir="ltr">You sent the March newsletter for proofreading
          and translation on Friday, March 6.  That day, and on
          Saturday, March 7, I proofread the webpreview that you
          identified in your email.  Just after noon my time (early
          evening your time) I sent my suggestions, with my version of
          the xhtml that I had downloaded from the webpreview.  My hope
          was that it would be useful to any of you who were working
          over the weekend.</div>
        <div dir="ltr"><br>
        </div>
        <div>Many of the suggestions I made related to garbage
          characters.  I was not the first one to see them.  Just 68
          minutes after you sent your message, Francisco de Asis
          Humberto Fernandez Miser wrote in response:  "Reading the
          newsletter in a Mo illa Firefox I have found sometimes this
          character †(in ™"you’re", for instance)."</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>A webpreview seems to be inherently a moving target.  This
          is not a complaint, just an observation of the process as I
          see it.  It is now Monday, March 9 (just after midnight for
          me, early morning in Europe).  When I look at the webpreview
          now, <br>
        </div>
        <br>
        <div>The garbage characters have now gotten worse.  I have done
          a diff between the xhtml of the version of the webpreview that
          I downloaded on Friday and the current version.  Here are the
          first few differences:</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>
          <pre>6c6
&lt; 	&lt;title&gt;It’s about our community&lt;/title&gt;
---
&gt; 	&lt;title&gt;It’s about our community&lt;/title&gt;
11c11
&lt; &lt;h1&gt;It’s about our community&lt;/h1&gt;
---
&gt; &lt;h1&gt;It’s about our community&lt;/h1&gt;
28c28
&lt; &lt;h3&gt;I Love Free Software Day 2026†&lt;/h3&gt;
---
&gt; &lt;h3&gt;I Love Free Software Day 2026†&lt;/h3&gt;
37c37
&lt; &lt;p&gt;For the 2026 celebration, and under the motto “Maintainers Matter†,
---
&gt; &lt;p&gt;For the 2026 celebration, and under the motto “Maintainers Matter†,</pre>
        </div>
        <div>All the differences seem to be this kind of expansion.  <br>
        </div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>=====</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>But it gets worse.  The same kind of garbage characters
          seem to have infected the email in which I made my suggestions
          on Saturday.  I am noting these infections in the copy of that
          email below.  (It is conceivable that a few of these may be my
          fault, but I am confident that most of them are not, that they
          are mistranscriptions of special characters that are not what
          I typed.)<br>
        </div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>I hope that you will send out a new draft (or make
          improvements to the webpreview) so that I will be able to do
          additional proofreading before you publish the newsletter on
          Tuesday.<br>
        </div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">
          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 7, 2026 at
            12:40 PM Richard L. Schmeidler &lt;<a
              href="mailto:[email protected]"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a>&gt;
            wrote:<br>
          </div>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr">
              <div dir="ltr">I have <span>proofread</span> the
                webpreview, and attach a version with my<br>
                suggestions.  My file is generated from the xhtml
                generated by the<br>
                webpreview, but it is in .odt format to get the benefit
                of<br>
                highlighting my suggestions with the LibreOffice Track
                Changes<br>
                feature.<br>
                <br>
                I am making the effort to do this quickly enough that
                you and the<br>
                translators will be able to work on it over the weekend
                as well as </div>
              <div dir="ltr">on Monday, before it is published on
                Tuesday.  <br>
              </div>
              <div dir="ltr"><br>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>1.  (BOTH Title and Heading)  "It’s about our
                  community"  Replace "It’s" with "It's" BOTH times.
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>2. Figure alt text:  "Graphic for the FSFE
                  newsletter with the FSFE logo, a I Love Free Software
                  collage that includes thank you cards, comic panels, a
                  group photo and on the bottom, a picture with books of
                  Ada and Zangemann and the Router Freedom icon" 
                  Replace the first occurrence of "a" (before "I") with
                  "an."  English grammar.  <br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                  3.  Heading:  "I Love Free Software Day 2026â"  Remove
                  "â".</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>4.  "Every year on 14 February and in the days
                  around it, we come together, online and in person, to
                  express their appreciation to everyone part of the
                  Free Software communities."</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>(a)  Replace "their" with "our."  Since the pronoun
                  used as the subject of the verb "come" is "we," the
                  corresponding possessive pronoun should be used for
                  "appreciation."<br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>(b)  Insert "who is" after "everyone."  English
                  usage.</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>I think that the versions of the special characters
            around the phrase Maintainers Matter may be corrupted, but I
            can't tell.<br>
          </div>
          <div> </div>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr">
              <div dir="ltr">
                <div>5.  "For the 2026 celebration, and under the motto
                  “Maintainers Matter†, our communities organised 22
                  events across 12 different European countries,
                  reaching more than 300 people offline."  </div>
              </div>
            </div>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>I see several corruptions in the sentence that follows. 
            The first quoted character that now is shown with a TM in it
            is corrupted, and the quoted phrase should have zero or two
            corrupted characters shown.  But this latter may be an error
            on my part.<br>
          </div>
          <div> </div>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr">
              <div dir="ltr">
                <div>Replace "’" with a single quotation mark BOTH
                  times, before and after "€œMaintainers Matter."  A
                  single quotation mark can look like an apostrophe, or
                  can be curved -- subtly different for the beginning
                  and ending quotation marks.  <br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>The corrupted characters in the text that I quoted and my
            suggestion are clearly inconsistent, so that there has been
            further corruption.<br>
          </div>
          <div> </div>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr">
              <div dir="ltr">
                <div>6.  "For the first time, the celebration also
                  reached the front page of Hacker News, thanks to a
                  “thank you†blog post by Matthias Kirschner"</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>(a)  This is just a suggertion.  Do you want to put
                  in a link to the front page of Hacker News?  I an not
                  attempting to do this in my version.</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>(b)  Replace "’" with a single quotation mark
                  BOTH times, before and after "thank you."  See my #5,
                  above, for a discussion of single quotation marks.</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>7.  'For our I Love Free Software Day podcast
                  episode w&lt;a
                  href="/news/podcast/2026/episode-47.html"&gt;e have
                  spoken with Lorenz Kästle from the monitoring
                  plugins&lt;/a&gt;.'  <br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>(a)  The link covers text starting in the middle of
                  the word "we" and continuing to the end of the
                  sentence.  I suggest having the link just on the words
                  "podcast episode."  I hope that I have done this
                  correctly in my version.  Other corrections are
                  possible.<br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>(b)  I have no idea what "monitoring plugins"
                  means, nor how Mr. Kastle can be "from . . .plugins." 
                  I think this should be rewritten, but I have not
                  attempted to rewrite this in my version, which would
                  require me to listen to the podcast.  That is not an
                  appropriate task for a proofreader working against a
                  deadline.</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>(c)  Replace "ä" with "a".  I hope that this is
                  the correct spelling of the name.  If not, do it
                  correctly.<br>
                </div>
                <br>
                8.  [this is the link text] "interoperability compliance
                under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and mobile
                phones"  Replace "EU’s" with "EU's".</div>
              <div dir="ltr"><br>
              </div>
              <div dir="ltr">9.  "During FOSDEM 2026, we also held a
                Q&amp;amp;A session on the Cyber Resilience Act together
                with a representative of the German market<br>
                <div>surveillance authority and the European Commission
                  as there are still uncertainties and recurring
                  questions."</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>(a)  I suggest adding commas before and after
                  "together with a representative of the German market
                  surveillance authority and the European Commission." 
                  (These commas are not compulsory, but I think that
                  they make the sentence clearer.)</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>(b)  This is a question, not a suggestion, since I
                  have not tried to research the FOSDEM session.  Was
                  the Q&amp;A session held with one person who
                  represented both organizations, or with two
                  representatives, one from each organization?  The
                  present text says that there was just one
                  representative.  If there were two representatives,
                  you should replace "a representative" with
                  "representatives."</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>10.  "There, we talked about the role of the
                  steward as
                  people are still unsure whether and under what
                  circumstances they
                  should or want to become a steward."  I suggest
                  replacing "or want to" with "- or might want to -" (I
                  have used hyphens as short dashes).  I think that this
                  makes the sentence clearer, both by indicating the
                  uncertainty as to desiring to take on the work, and as
                  more clearly distinguishing mandatory from voluntary
                  work.
                </div>
                <br>
              </div>
            </div>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Obviously, the replacement should have an apostrophe,
            rather than the corrupted character.<br>
          </div>
          <div> </div>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr">
              <div dir="ltr">11.  "Google’s plan would mean that all
                personal data of Free Software app developers on
                Android would end up with Google"  Replace "Google’s"
                with "Google'€™s."</div>
              <div dir="ltr"><br>
              </div>
            </div>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Obviously, the replacement should have a hyphen, rather
            than the corrupted character.</div>
          <div> </div>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr">
              <div dir="ltr">12.  "arbitrary bans against
                privacy‑protecting and critical apps"  Replace
                "privacy‑protecting" with "privacy-€‘protecting."
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>13.  "What the letter asks Google is to rescind the
                  mandatory developer registration for all third‑party
                  distribution, to engage in transparent dialogue with
                  civil society, Free Software communities, and
                  regulators on improving security without sacrificing
                  openness, and committing to platform neutrality so
                  that Google’s role as Android steward does not
                  conflict with its commercial interests."</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Obviously, the replacement should have a hyphen, rather
            than the corrupted character.</div>
          <div> </div>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr">
              <div dir="ltr">
                <div>(a)  Replace "third‑party" with "third-€‘party."</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>(b)  Replace "committing" with "to commit."  This
                  rather long sentence combines clauses that have
                  different forms.<br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Obviously, the replacement should have an apostrophe,
            rather than the corrupted character.</div>
          <div> </div>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr">
              <div dir="ltr">
                <div>(c)  Replace "Google’s" with "Google'€'s."<br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                14.  Heading:  "From Ada’s workshop"  Replace
                "Ada’s" with "Ada'€'s</div>
              <br>
              15.  "Ada og Zangemann – En fortelling om programvare,
              rullebrett og bringebæris"  I suspect that the same sort
              of corruption of punctuation and spelling that I have been
              encountering has affected this Norwegian title, as it has
              affected so much of this webpreview.  In particular, I
              have doubts about "â" and "bringebæris."  However, I have
              no idea what the correct punctuation and spelling should
              be.  Someone who has access to the Norwegian title should
              correct this.<br>
              <div dir="ltr"><br>
              </div>
              <div dir="ltr">16.  "an Ada &amp;amp; Zangemann reading
                session in Frech took place alongside a small Ada-themed
                game."  Replace "Frech" with "French."</div>
              <div dir="ltr"><br>
              </div>
              <div dir="ltr">17.  Last but not least, if you are in
                Germany and coming to <a
href="https://fsfe.org/events/index.en.html#event-20260328-01"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Chemnitzer
                  Linux-Tage 2026</a> , come by to say hi!"  I suggest
                replacing 'hi!' with ' "Hi!" '<br>
              </div>
              <div dir="ltr"><br>
              </div>
              <div>(a)  Since you are quoting the greeting, it is
                customary in English to enclose it in quotation marks. 
                (There is a discussion of quotation marks in my #5,
                above.)  <br>
              </div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>(b)  It is customary in English to capitalize the
                first word of a quoted full sentence, even if the
                sentence is just a one-word greeting.  (Here "hi!" is
                clearly a quoted full sentence, not  just a single
                quoted word, since the terminating punctuation of the
                sentence is quoted.}<br>
              </div>
              <div dir="ltr">
                <div><br>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>
          </blockquote>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Obviously, the replacement should have an apostrophe,
            rather than the corrupted character.</div>
          <div> </div>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote">
            <div dir="ltr">
              <div dir="ltr">
                <div>18.  "We may be behind the wheel, but you’re the
                  ones keeping us moving forward."  Replace "you’re"
                  with "you'€™re."</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
              </div>
              <br>
              <div class="gmail_quote">
                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at
                  8:51 AM Ana Galan &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                    class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a>&gt;
                  wrote:<br>
                </div>
                <blockquote class="gmail_quote">
                  <div>
                    <p>Dear translators,</p>
                    <p>our newsletter is ready for your proofreading and
                      translation:</p>
                    <p><a
href="https://webpreview.fsfe.org/cgi/fsfe.pl?pad=1594" target="_blank"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://webpreview.fsfe.org/cgi/fsfe.pl?pad=1594</a></p>
                    <p>We will publish it next Tuesday.</p>
                    <p>Best and have a great weekend!</p>
                    <p>Ana</p>
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